“Some look for beauty in the banal, or subvert the roles traditionally ascribed to the basic elements of architecture," says curator Ken Wood. "The wall may become the oculus instead of the support. The column may become a place of transient impermanence instead of the structure that prevents collapse. The service space becomes the dwelling. Others talk about the appropriation and displacement of cultural icons that were made to hold history in a fixed, rooted placement. Small scale and large scale get inverted, and monuments of permanence get toted off in duffel bags.”

Wood adds: “The more personal, the more intimate, the more it’s going to feel like a place. But then again, you can make a place anywhere, you can make a nest anywhere…Nests, Shells, and Corners.”